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The actual aims
and results of psychiatric and pharmaceutical-promoted forced
"mental health" testing and the resulting "necessary
treatments" may become more apparent when you examine the
statements of the leaders, founders, and theorists of psychiatry and
psychology.

Psychiatry's Views
on Conservatives

"In August 2003, the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million
taxpayer-funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists
are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of
Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social
conservatives, in particular, suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’
‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with
associated indicators for mental illness."
Source: B.K.
Eakman, Chronicles, October 2004, pp. 28-29."Political conservatism as motivated social
cognition"By Jost, John T.; Glaser, Jack; Kruglanski,
Arie W.; Sulloway, Frank J. APA Psychological Bulletin, May 2003, Vol
129(3), p 339-375

Any questions on who
they want to drug into being silent and obedient? Don't think
they have a different opinion of liberals or anyone who is outspoken
or wants to improve society. Read on for more!

Psychiatry's Views
on Education

"Every child in
America entering school at the age of five is insane because he
comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers,
toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a
separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick
children well – by creating the international child of the
future"Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Psychiatrist, address to the Childhood
International Education Seminar, 1973

"We have swallowed
all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our
Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our
newspapers, and others with a vested interest in controlling us.
‘Thou shalt become as gods, knowing good and evil,’ good and evil
with which to keep children under control, with which to impose local
and familial and national loyalties and with which to blind children
to their glorious intellectual heritage… The results, the inevitable
results, are frustration, inferiority, neurosis and inability to enjoy
living, to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in."Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, President, World Federation of Mental Health

Teaching school children
to read was a "perversion" and high literacy rate bred
"the sustaining force behind individualism."John Dewey, Educational Psychologist

The school curriculum
should "…be designed to bend the student to the realities of
society, especially by way of vocational education… the
curriculum should be designed to promote mental health as an
instrument for social progress and a means of altering
culture…"Report: Action for Mental Health, 1961

"Education should
aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus
schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their
lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters
would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will
have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try
different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow
is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that
influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and
repeatedly intoned are very effective ... It is for the future
scientist to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much
it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When
the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in
charge of education for more than one generation will be able to
control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of
philosophy & psychology who influenced Hegel and others –
Prussian University in Berlin, 1810

"…through schools
of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government –
one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men; one
that will postulate the need for scientific control and operation of
economic activities in the interests of all people."Harold Rugg, student of psychology and a disciple of John Dewey

"Education does not
mean teaching people to know what they do not know – it means
teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) sponsored report:
The Role of Schools in Mental Health

"This is the idea
where we drop subject matter and we drop Carnegie Unites (grading from
A-F) and we just let students find their way, keeping them in school
until they manifest the politically correct attitudes. You see,
one of the effects of self-esteem (Values Clarification) programs is
that you are no longer obliged to tell the truth if you don’t feel
like it. You don’t have to tell the truth because if the truth you
have to tell is about your own failure then your self-esteem will go
down and that is unthinkable."Dr. William Coulson, explaining Outcome Based Education (OBE) Info

"Education is thus a
most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of
humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour
once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem
the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?"Charles F. Potter, Humanist

"Men are built, not
born…. Give me the baby, and I’ll make it climb and use its hands
in constructing buildings of stone or wood…. I’ll make it a thief,
a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any
direction are almost endless…"John B. Watson, psychologist, founder of "Behaviorism"

"Of course,
Behaviorism 'works.' So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense,
down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical
appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian
Creed in public".W. H. Auden

"Despite rapid
progress in the right direction, the program of the average elementary
school has been primarily devoted to teaching the fundamental
subjects, the three R’s, and closely related disciplines…
Artificial exercises, like drills on phonetics, multiplication tables,
and formal writing movements, are used to a wasteful degree. Subjects
such as arithmetic, language, and history include content that is
intrinsically of little value. Nearly every subject is enlarged
unwisely to satisfy the academic ideal of thoroughness… Elimination
of the unessential by scientific study, then, is one step in improving
the curriculum."Edward Lee Thorndike, pioneer of "animal psychology"

"We can therefore
justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the
proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be
incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity
in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of
professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching
profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and
medicine."Dr. John Rawlings Rees, "Strategic Planning for Mental
Health", June 18, 1940

"Psychology, and
child-study stand first in order among the required subjects of
technical nature… The course of child-study is supplementary to the
prescribed courses in systematic and applied psychology."1899 Teachers College Course

"...a student
attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right
or wrong". "A large part of what we call good
teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by
challenging the student's fixed beliefs. …a large part of what
we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education
to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings."
Benjamin Bloom, psychologist and educational theorist, in "Major
Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives", p. 185,
1956

"The educational
system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country
are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape
inspection."Paul Popenoe, Behavioral Eugenist and co-author:
"Sterilization for Human Betterment"

"Religion is an
illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in
with our instinctual desires."Sigmund Freud

"The religions of
mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one,
needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as
such..."Sigmund Freud

"Civilization runs a
greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if
we give it up."Sigmund Freud

"In short, the
nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the
orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the
Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia."Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Binet-Sangle: La Folie de Jesus (The
Madness of Jesus), 1910

"…Jesus Christ
might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of
modern psychiatric treatments."William Sargant, British psychiatrist, 1974

"No one knows just
how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started… It probably had
its origin in the general laziness of mankind."John B. Watson, behavioral psychologist

"This dogma (the
soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No
one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has
in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other
objects of his daily experience."John B. Watson, behavioral psychologist

"I regard myself as
one of the most dangerous enemies of religion"Sigmund Freud

"The soul or
consciousness, which played the leading part in the past, now is of
very little importance; in any case both are deprived of their main
functions and glory to such an extent that only the names remain.
Behaviorism sang their funeral dirge while materialism – the smiling
heir – arranges a suitable funeral for them."Statement delivered at the Sixth International Congress of
Philosophy at Harvard University

"…humanists still
believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the
prayer-hearing God, assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and
understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them,
is an unproved and outmoded faith." "Traditional moral
codes… fail to meet the pressing needs of today and
tomorrow…" "Promises of immortal salvation or fear of
eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful… The total
personality is a function of the biological organism transacting in a
social and cultural context. There is no credible evidence that life
survives the death of the body."The Humanist Manifesto 2, 1973

"All neurotics seek
the religious"Psychologist Carl Jung

"It should be
recognized that an acceptance of the mental health viewpoint…
carries an obligation to examine critically some of the teaching of
the churches in the light of present-day insight into what seems to be
essential to wholesome personality development and into what is now
known to be detrimental to the growing personality of the child."Psychiatrist at World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) Conference

"Pastoral psychology
understands itself as a help for the communities in view of ‘group
dynamic’ proceedings –e.g., the processes of rivalization, or the
search for scapegoats, harmonization or shifting guilt, which… can
determine life in a community so strongly that the succession of Jesus
Christ is no longer paid heed"The German Association for Pastoral Psychology Magazine – Ways To
Man

"What is the
relationship between wholeness and holiness?… What does personal
responsibility mean in the light of the findings or psychoanalysis? Do
the words right and wrong, have any further usefulness in the light of
our new knowledge of compulsive behavior patterns? I believe it’s
one of the tragedies of Christianity that it has got itself all mixed
up with morality…"Canon Sydney Evans, National Association for Mental Health, 1967

"The word soul has
lost its meaning and even its plausibility…. Faith, hope and love
can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces; they are processes
in flesh and blood… (the clergyman) will find that whether he wants
it or not, he is also a front-line mental health worker or he will be
so regarded by the specialists in mental health. It is on the pastoral
role and the tasks of shepherding that the psychological disciples
have the greatest impact in theological work."Paul Pruyser, psychologist, author: "The Seamy Side of Current
Religious Beliefs"

"In recent years
pastoral counselors have separated from their parishes and emerged as
a psychotherapy profession…. This professionalization process
includes a shift away from parish-based counseling to counseling
centers or medical settings, declining interest in religious practices
and convictions, increased interest in psychological practices and
theories, the charging of fees, and increased institutional and
professional barriers to those individuals perceived as poor
counseling clients or unable to pay…. There is also… growing
deviation from a religious orientation to a pseudopsychiatric
orientation."American Journal of Psychiatry, March 1986

"We can therefore
justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the
proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be
incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity
in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a
number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching
profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and
medicine."Dr. John Rawlings Rees, "Strategic Planning for Mental
Health", June 18, 1940

"To achieve world
government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their
individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and
religious dogmas..."G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and co-founder of the World
Federation of Mental Health

"The danger is that
these psychologies may, to one degree or another, replace Christianity
without most people even noticing that any substitution has taken
place."Christianity Today, 1994

Psychiatry's Views on
Creating a Slave Society

"We can choose to
use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of
before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully
selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of
personhood."Carl R. Rodgers, Former President of the American Psychological
Association (APA)

Teaching school children
to read was a "perversion" and high literacy rate bred
"the sustaining force behind individualism."John Dewey, Educational Psychologist

"It will of course,
be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance
in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in
controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the
common wheel."Edward Thorndike, Key Psychology Theorist, member of the
"Eugenics Committee of the USA"

"We need a program
of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The
purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from
the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may
think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this
is only his personal point of view. . . Man does not have the right to
develop his own mind. . . . We must electronically control the brain.
Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electronic
stimulation of the brain." Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado, Director of Neuropsychiatry at Yale
University Medical School, Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118,
Feb. 24, 1974. Delgado was reported as part of the
"MK-Ultra" CIA mind-control program.

"The reduction of
intelligence is an important factor in the curative process… The
fact is that some of the very best cures that one gets are in
those individuals whom one reduces almost to amentia
(feeble-mindedness)…"Dr. Abraham Myerson, Harvard Psychiatrist, 1942

"Education should
aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus
schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their
lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters
would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will
have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try
different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow
is black. Various results will soon be arrived at: first, that
influences of the home are 'obstructive' and verses set to music and
repeatedly intoned are very effective ... It is for the future
scientist to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much
it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black. When
the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in
charge of education for more than one generation will be able to
control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of
philosophy & psychology – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810

"One of the least
understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly
toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of
obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New
World Order."K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

"Those of us who
work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total
control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act.
These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by
the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can
produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A
"utopia" could be found – providing "a sense of
stability and certainty, whether realistic or not."Attributed to psychiatrist Nathan Kline, 1967

". . . yet almost
everyone attributes human behavior to intentions, purposes, aims and
goals. . . . as if they had wills, impulses, feelings, purposes, and
other fragmentary attributes of an indwelling agent. We shall
not solve the problems of alcoholism and juvenile delinquency by
increasing a sense of responsibility. It is the environment which is
'responsible' for the objectionable behavior, and it is the
environment, not some attribute of the individual, which must be
changed. "If all else fails, punishable behavior may be
made less likely by changing physiological conditions. Hormones may be
used to change sexual behavior, surgery (as in lobotomy) to control
violence, tranquilizers to control aggression, and appetite
depressants to control overeating."
Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner in "Beyond Freedom and
Dignity"

"Of course,
Behaviorism 'works.' So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense,
down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical
appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian
Creed in public."W. H. Auden

"The plea for the
predominance of learning to read in early school life because
of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a
perversion."John Dewey in "The Primary Education Fetich"

"The State is the
absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence,
truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State."Hegel (who influenced Karl Marx)

Psychiatry's Views
on America

"America is a
mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake
nevertheless."Sigmund Freud

America is the most grandiose experiment the world
has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.Sigmund Freud

Psychiatry's Views
on World Government

"Principles of
mental health cannot be successfully furthered in any society unless
there is progressive acceptance of the concept of world citizenship.
World citizenship can be widely extended among all peoples through
applications of the principles of mental health."National Association for Mental Health, 1948

"To achieve world
government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their
individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and
religious dogmas...Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and co-founder of the World
Federation of Mental Health

"One of the least
understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly
toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of
obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New
World Order."K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Freud on Marxism

"The strength of
Marxism obviously does not lie in its view of history or in the
prophecies about the future which it bases upon that view, but in its
clear insight into the determining influence which is exerted by
the economic conditions of man upon his intellectual, ethical and
artistic reactions."Sigmund Freud

Involuntary
Psychiatric Commitment

"...legal
systems have been established in a majority of states for involuntary
and compulsory hospitalization and treatment of neurosis. These state
laws have been based on a prototype bill published originally by the
Federal Security Agency of the Public Health Service, now a part of
the Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Entitled a Draft
Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill, it is, in
fact, a skeleton bill designed for adoption uniformly by federal,
state, and territorial governments to radically alter commitment
procedures... if you won't consent to voluntary treatment, a police
officer can arrest you. You can be subjected to 3 to 5 days
of treatment of the psychiatrist's choosing before you even get a
hearing to protect your rights in most states. Treatment can
include electric shock treatments, chemotherapy, hypnosis or
conceivably a frontal lobotomy...Basically,
all that is necessary to revoke all the constitutional rights of any
citizen is to accuse him of being mentally-ill."
John A. Stormer, "None Dare Call it Treason"

"In all my research
on violence for a book published several years ago, I had not seen one
credible study — meaning that the small amount of research done in
this area is not worth a damn - showing that society has more to fear
from patients labeled "mentally ill" than other people in
the community. For example, there has never been any appropriate
follow-up of patients that has determined whether the absence of
treatment leads to violence. The very foundation of forced
treatment is ideology and fear-mongering and not science."Nicholas Regush, Editor, redflagsdaily.com

Psychiatry
Promoting Euthanasia, Eugenics, Racism

"Should it turn out
that in spite of in the new-born is a weakly and ill-bred child, then
a gentle death will be provided for him by the medical board, which
decides over the citizenship papers of the society, let’s say
through a small dose of morphine… (The parents) will not give
themselves over to rebellious feelings for long but will try it fresh
and happily a second time, if they are permitted to do so and have a
certificate granting them the right to the procedure."Dr. Alfred Ploetz in 1895; German psychiatrist who founded eugenics
in Germany, paving the way for the horrors of Hitler's genocide.

"It was only through
the political work of Hitler that the meaning of racial hygiene has
become publicly manifest in Germany, and it is only due to him that our
thirty-year-old dream to put racial hygiene into practice has
become a reality."Dr. Ernst Rudin, Nazi psychiatrist, explaining how psychiatrists in
Germany originated the ideas of genocide which Hitler later executed.
Note: Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger published Rudin's
article in the U.S.: "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need"

"The most effective
race preserving measure is that which gives the greatest support to
the natural defenses....We may and we must rely on the healthy
instincts of the best of our people...for the extermination of
elements of the population loaded with dregs. Otherwise, these
deleterious mutations will permeate the body of the people like the
cells of a cancer."Konrad Lorenz, Nazi lecturer in psychology, University of
Konigsberg, 1940

Psychiatry's Views
on Morality and Families

"If the race is to
be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be
psychiatrists who take the original responsibility"Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and co-founder of the World
Federation of Mental Health

"The
re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of
right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the
substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith… are the
belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy.
The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other
respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able
to observe and think freely."Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, 1945

"...the pretense is
made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension
of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce
uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos.
The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other
respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think
freely."Dr. G. Brock Chisholm in: Psychiatry: Journal of Biology and
Pathology of Interpersonal Relations 9, no. 1, February 1946

"Old conventions,
customs and values… to be challenged… The aim should be to control
not only nature, but human nature." He recommended two slogans
for "spreading world-wide the gospel of mental hygiene":
"To learn to think internationally" and "The necessity
to disarm the mind."Dr. J.R. Lord, psychiatrist

"Free sexual
intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was
urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to
incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum,
destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole
coming generation."Sigmund Freud

"The family is now
one of the major obstacles to improved mental health, and hence should
be weakened, if possible, so as to free individuals and especially
children from the coercion of family life."International Congress on Mental Health, London, 1948

"Every child in
America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes
to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our
elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a
supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a
separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick
children well – by creating the international child of the
future"Psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, Address to the Childhood
International Education Seminar, 1973

"We have swallowed
all manner of poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday
and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers,
and others with a vested interest in controlling us. ‘Thou shalt
become as gods, knowing good and evil,’ good and evil with which to
keep children under control, with which to impose local and familial
and national loyalties and with which to blind children to their
glorious intellectual heritage… The results, the inevitable results,
are frustration, inferiority, neurosis and inability to enjoy living,
to reason clearly or to make a world fit to live in."Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, co-founder of the World Federation of Mental
Health

"Where is the
direction of influence going to run? It’s going to run – and the
research confirms this again and again – it’s going to run from
the experienced to the inexperienced. The net outcome of sex
education, styled as Rogerian encountering, is more sexual
experience."Dr. William Coulson, Psychologist

"Public life,
politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of
influence…. If we are to infiltrate the professional and
social activities of other people I think we must imitate the
Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity!
If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the
salesmen, must lose our identity… Let us all, therefore, very
secretly be ‘fifth columnists.’"Dr. John Rawlings Rees, co-founder of the World Federation for
Mental Health

"Society's
excessively moralistic and punitive reactions toward pedophiles go far
beyond what I consider to be the gravity of the crime."Dr. Richard Garner, clinical professor of child psychiatry, quoted
in Insight Magazine, 1999

"The danger is that
these psychologies may, to one degree or another, replace Christianity
without most people even noticing that any substitution has taken
place."Christianity Today, 1994

"So we must
shun the false guides of men and their false religions, babbling
psychologists, wordy psychiatrists and polluted politicians, all of
which have built up such tremendous reputations as colossal failures.
Look at the messes they have made, know them by their rotten fruits,
reject them for their fruits."The Watchtower (Catholic publication), W-52 1/15, p53

"The
second reason for our critical times is modern man's rejection of
God's Word the Bible. Enemies such as Wellhausen and his prejudiced
school of higher critics, Darwin and his evolutionists, Freud and
his theories, Marx and his atheistic revolutionists-all these have
played asinister role in destroying the guiding
influence of the Bible for many; especially since so many of the
clergy have adopted such worldly wisdom... According to Freud,
one of psychiatry's chief authorities, religion is a great illusion
that man will get rid of someday. Psychiatry stresses, "Know
thyself," as if an enlightened self-love is sufficient for
successful living. More than ignoring God, (psycho)analysts often
contradict God by advising those with guilty consciences that
fornication, adultery and sodomy are not wrong in themselves. The
charge rightly has been made that such counsel tends to exterminate
the conscience".
The Watchtower, W-63 1/15, p37-8

"Recent research has
shown, that the vast majority of people who are violent do not suffer
from mental illnesses."American Psychiatric Association website

"...
the proponents of the mental health program have been quick to
elaborate a series of legislative proposals.... This is the age-old
subterfuge of the collectivist, whose only solution for any problem,
be it economic, social or political, is the passage of another law,
the imposition of another tax, and the establishment of another
bureau."Dr. Lewis Alesen,
former surgeon and president of the California Medical Association,
1960

"The mental
health establishment has snowed the American people: it launches the
most unimaginable brutal psychological and physical assault on human
beings in distress, calls this 'medical treatment', and then blames
the outcome on 'mental illness'.
Seth Farber, PhD

"So part of what
we're seeing is nothing more than the creation of a larger market for
drugs. If you think about it, as long as we draw as big a circle as
possible, and expand the boundaries of mental illness, psychiatry can
have more clients and sell more drugs. So there's a built-in economic
incentive to define mental illness in as broad terms as possible, and to
find ordinary, distressing emotions or behaviors that some people may
not like and label them as mental illness."Robert Whitaker, in the August 2005 American Friends Service
Committee's "Street Spirit." Whitaker is the author of
"Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring
Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill"

"Most
of the almost innumerable books, pamphlets, and other publications
issued by the sponsors of the mental health program are purposely and
craftily disingenuous, disguising its real and ultimate purpose:
... the ultimate reduction of every individual in this world,
except the favored few who conceive of themselves as possessed of an
incomparable genius in their ability to direct the affairs of others, into...
a common servile obeisance to his master, the State...."Mental Robots, by Dr. Lewis Albert Alesen

The techniques of
brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in
psychological conditioning programs imposed on school children. These
include emotional shock and desensitization, psychological isolation
from sources of support, stripping away defenses, manipulative
cross-examination of the individual’s underlying moral values by
psychological rather than rational means. These techniques are not
confined to separate courses or programs...they are not isolated
idiosyncracies of particular teachers. They are products of numerous
books and other educational materials in programs packaged by
organizations that sell such curricula to administrators and teach the
techniques to teachers. Some packages even include instructions on how
to deal with parents and others who object. Stripping away
psychological defenses can be done through assignments to keep diaries
to be discussed in group sessions, and through role-playing
assignments, both techniques used in the original brainwashing
programs in China under Mao.Thomas Sowell, writing in Forbes, 1991

"A growing
proportion of many school budgets is devoted to counseling and other
psychological services. The curriculum is becoming more therapeutic:
children are taking courses in self-esteem, conflict resolution, and
aggression management. Parental advisory groups are conscientiously
debating alternative approaches to traditional school discipline,
ranging from teacher training in mediation to the introduction of
metal detectors and security guards in the schools. Schools are
increasingly becoming emergency rooms of the emotions, devoted...to
repairing hearts. What we are seeing....is the psychologization of
American education."Atlantic Monthly, April 1993

In the old days during
electroshock "we used to break arms… leg(s) and elbows."Dr. Harry Bailey, Psychiatrist

"Psychology is the
science of intellect, characters, and behavior of animals,
including man."Edward Lee Thorndike, pioneer of "animal psychology"

"...every person who
comes into this office who has had an experience with another
therapist has some kind of horror story to tell, about some major
failing on the therapist's part, including, quite often, sexual abuse,
verbal abuse, things that cross the boundary of mere bad technique and
come pretty damn close to the criminal."Thomas Maeder, clinical psychologist: "Wounded Healers",
Atlantic Monthly, January, 1989, p. 38

"The changes one
sees when electroshock is administered are completely consistent with
any acute brain injury, such as a blow to the head from a hammer. In
essence, what happens is that the individual is dazed, confused, and
disoriented, and therefore cannot remember or appreciate current
problems."Dr. Lee Coleman, psychiatrist, 1977

"Over the years it
[the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the
promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows
what it is or how to do it."E. Fuller Torrey, psychiatrist, "Nowhere To Go", Harper
and Row, 1988

"The field of mental
health is highly subjective, capricious, and dominated by whims,
mythologies, and public relations. In many ways it is a pop culture
with endless fads but with no real substance."Dr. Walter Fisher, Assistant Superintendent, Elgin State Hospital,
in "Power, Greed, and Stupidity in the Mental Health Racket"

"If we are to
infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I
think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of
fifth column activity. If better ideas on mental health are to
progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity ...
Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists'."Dr. John Rawlings Rees, psychiatrist "Strategic Planning for
Mental Health", Mental Health, v.1 no.4, p. 103-6

"[it is] a high
class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story
burglars. We go right in the front door."Mike Gorman, psychiatric publicist, remarking on National Institute
of Mental Health fundraising tactics in Drew, "The Health
Syndicate", The Atlantic Monthly, December 1967, P. 76

"What do you do when
you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among
psychiatrists than in any other profession." Psychiatrist R. D. Laing, Wisdom, Madness, and Folly, p. 126

"...Now it is time
to ask the original question; who truly profits from the Psychiatric
Interventions? I can provide a list, in order of who profits the most.
#1. Pharmaceutical companies make billions on psychotropic medicines.
#2. The Hospital probably makes between $500 and $1000 a day on the
patient. #3. The Psychiatrist makes from $100 to $300 per visit.
..."Baker Act (Florida) discussion

"Much of today's
psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics..."Loren Mosher, M.D., Former Chief of the Center for Studies of
Schizophrenia, The National Institute of Mental Health

"It is the
'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy -- the expressed or implicit
contention that there is no essential difference between rat and
man -- which makes American psychology so profoundly
disturbing."Ludwig von Bertlanffy, Robots, Men and Minds. NY, George Braziller
(1967), pp. 15-16.

"A psychiatrist is a
man who has studied medicine, which he does not practice, but
practices psychology, which he has not studied."
Dr. Harriet Babcock, former Chief Psychologist, Bellevue Hospital

"Few legislators who
passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his
associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a
particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict
adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed
for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong,
love of country and morality in children by their parents is the
paramount evil." John A. Stormer, None Dare Call it Treason, Chapter IX, Mental
Health

"The very term
['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words
cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a
mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise
space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental
illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words
"mental" and "illness" do not go together
logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does
mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or
disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking,
emotions, or behavior).Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, in "The Death of
Psychiatry", 1974

"Contrary to the
popular public conception, this happenstance is NOT a form of health
care, but the result of a fraudulent system being granted police
powers by the State. By calling the harmless 'insane', (who statistics
prove to be no more violence-prone than the average citizen, unless
hopelessly deranged by damaging psychiatric 'treatment'), dangerous
and justifying their own existence by the 'need' to deal with that
inflated 'danger', the mad-doctors themselves pose the greatest threat
to liberty, property and democracy in our times."Citizens for Higher Ethical Standards in Medicine

"Mental illness is
often used as an ad homonym to discredit the individual. This has been
a common use of psychiatric diagnosis in psychiatry in Russia. "
... there are two main groups [of schizophrenia patients] ... 1)
people admitted to the mental hospital long before they had been
political dissenters ... 2. others who ... have put forward complex
social and economic theories as alternatives to orthodox
Marxism..." Wing, cited in "Pseudoscience in Psychology", by Dr.
Szasz, p. 126

"Show me a sane man
and I will cure him for you." Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, who praised
both Hitler and Musolini

"It is no measure of
health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.."J. Krishnamurti

"In the United
States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as
adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus
steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively
constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults".
Thomas Szasz

"Involuntary mental
hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment
is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to
improve commitment, but how to abolish it".Thomas Szasz

"We have
lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the
science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete
ignoramuses. We have psychology instead."D. H. Lawrence

"They
called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted
me."English playwright Nathaniel Lee (on being consigned to a mental
institution)

"...the
subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass
Psychology.... The populace will not be allowed to know how its
convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected,
every government that has been in charge of education for a generation
will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of
armies or policemen. As yet there is only one country which has
succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise."
The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell

"Nothing has harmed
the quality of individual life in modern society more than the
misbegotten belief that human suffering is driven by biological and
genetic causes and can be rectified by taking drugs or undergoing
electroshock therapy. ... If I wanted to ruin someone's
life, I would convince the person that that biological psychiatry is
right - that relationships mean nothing, that choice is impossible,
and that the mechanics of a broken brain reign over our emotions and
conduct. If I wanted to impair an individual's capacity to
create empathetic, loving relationships, I would prescribe psychiatric
drugs, all of which blunt our highest psychological and
spiritual functions." Peter R. Breggin, M.D., in the foreword to "Reality Therapy in
Action" by William Glasser, M.D., p. xi

"A Trojan horse full
of dangerous psycho-fantasies has been professionally prepared for us
by Christian psychiatrists and psychologists... At the base,
such therapies stand upon dogma, not scientific observations, and the
dogma is the odious one of Freud and his followers who were some of
the century's most anti-Christ teachers. No amount of
well-intentioned refinement of deadly doctrines will make them clean
for Christians."Dr. Hilton P. Terrell, M.D.

"Advocates of
psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning
and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is
true. There are no drugs that improve mental function,
self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects
mental processes does so by impairing them.""Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop
Taking Psychiatric Drugs", by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
& David Cohen, Ph.D.

"Psychotherapy may
be known in the future as the greatest hoax of the twentieth
century."Dr. Lawrence LeShan, former president of the Association for
Humanistic Psychology

"Nearly half a
century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart
from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists,
both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The
result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that
psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of
its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all
consciousness." Sir Cyril Burt in British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 53, No. 3,
1962, p. 229.

"...there is no
evidence that the benefits of psychotherapy are greater than those of
placebo treatment"An analysis of psychotherapy versus placebo studies, by Leslie
Prioleau, et al., The Behavioral and Brain Sciences Vol. 6, p. 275,
1983

"These misguided
myth-makers have encouraged us to believe that the infinite mysteries
of the mind are as amenable to their professed expertise as plumbing
or an automobile engine. This is rubbish. In fact these
talk therapists, practitioners of cosmetic psychiatry, have no
relevant training or skills in the art of living life. It is
remarkable that they have fooled us for so long. ... Cowed by
their status as men of science, deferring to their academic titles,
bewitched by the initials after their names, we, the gullible, lap up
their pretentious nonsense as if it were the gospel truth. We
must learn to recognize them for what they are - possessors of no
special knowledge of the human psyche, who have, nonetheless, chosen
to earn their living from the dissemination of the myth that they do
indeed know how the mind works".Psychiatrist Garth Wood, M.D., in "The Myth of Neurosis",
1986

"In the 14-year
period between 1950 and 1964, more American deaths occurred in
state and county mental institutions than in all of the nation's armed
conflicts beginning with the Revolutionary War and ending with the
Persian Gulf War. Between 1965 and 1990, the total number of
mental-hospital inpatient deaths exceeded the number of battle deaths
in the same wars by 70 percent. Inpatient deaths topped out at
1,103,000 during this 25-year period, compared with 650,563 recorded
deaths in battles."Kelly Patricia O’Meara: "The Forgotten Dead of St.
Elizabeth's", Insight Magazine, June 16, 2001

"The similarities
between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are
disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the
brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of
mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important
to recognize that the only significant difference between many
prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as
"speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs
are legal." Neuro-psychiatrist Sydney Walker in "Dose of Sanity"

"Clearly this
business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating
young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a
stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going
on."Pat Schroeder, U.S. Representative, 1992

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